GachiMuchi 2,162 Posted October 30, 2020 Report Share Posted October 30, 2020 (edited) Was with a few old friends and was chatting about places we've been and missed. A few names which pops up and some at the tip of my tongue but failed to recall. LGBT Bars Pebble Bar at former Forum. very rowdy crowds. not much impression. Inner Circle at Tg Pagar. A place where I ventured alone and later found that it was a place I belong. Had many great and happy times. Always remember the New Year Eve celebrations. Lots of fond memories and met many friends there. Vincent's Lounge, Far East Plaza. Hardy been there but it's a place where the Ang Mo and the MB hangs out. Xpose - South Bridge Road - Remembered that there were many singing competitions held there and the owner Alan. MOX bar - Tg Pagar Rd - remembered this place as it's mostly white. don't hang out there much. DYMK - Neil Road, been there a few times for gathering or someone's birthday Locker Room - Neil Road. been there only a few times Disco / Clubs The Hangar - Opposite Bayshore park but the colonial building demolished to make way for condos. Remember it as a a building up a slope. Sunday is where there will be drag queen shows. Rather happening but due to the location. don't go there much. Marmota / Shadows. Kallang Leisure Mall. Disco dancing only on Sunday Niche. Far East Plaza level 5. First official gay disco club in Sg. Owner Bernard who later close Niche and open Inner Circle Karaoke. was one of the most happening gay disco bar of it's time. Rascal - Disco at (can't remember the hotel). Only on Sunday Studebaker / Venom at Orchard Pacific Plaza (building next to Holiday Inn) Why Not? Tras Street The famous twins who owns the dance club and the Babylon KTV Taboo at Neil Road which recently closed. ...and the rest and in between all forgotten. What are the bars and the discos that you remember and the memories you had? Edited October 31, 2020 by GachiMuchi TopChinese and upshot 1 1 Quote http://gachimuchi2008.blogspot.com Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Remember & Fondle Posted October 31, 2020 Report Share Posted October 31, 2020 Sigh! Reminisce again. Get that box of tissues. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fetish69 517 Posted November 5, 2020 Report Share Posted November 5, 2020 On 10/31/2020 at 4:17 AM, GachiMuchi said: Was with a few old friends and was chatting about places we've been and missed. A few names which pops up and some at the tip of my tongue but failed to recall. LGBT Bars Pebble Bar at former Forum. very rowdy crowds. not much impression. Inner Circle at Tg Pagar. A place where I ventured alone and later found that it was a place I belong. Had many great and happy times. Always remember the New Year Eve celebrations. Lots of fond memories and met many friends there. Vincent's Lounge, Far East Plaza. Hardy been there but it's a place where the Ang Mo and the MB hangs out. Xpose - South Bridge Road - Remembered that there were many singing competitions held there and the owner Alan. MOX bar - Tg Pagar Rd - remembered this place as it's mostly white. don't hang out there much. DYMK - Neil Road, been there a few times for gathering or someone's birthday Locker Room - Neil Road. been there only a few times Disco / Clubs The Hangar - Opposite Bayshore park but the colonial building demolished to make way for condos. Remember it as a a building up a slope. Sunday is where there will be drag queen shows. Rather happening but due to the location. don't go there much. Marmota / Shadows. Kallang Leisure Mall. Disco dancing only on Sunday Niche. Far East Plaza level 5. First official gay disco club in Sg. Owner Bernard who later close Niche and open Inner Circle Karaoke. was one of the most happening gay disco bar of it's time. Rascal - Disco at (can't remember the hotel). Only on Sunday Studebaker / Venom at Orchard Pacific Plaza (building next to Holiday Inn) Why Not? Tras Street The famous twins who owns the dance club and the Babylon KTV Taboo at Neil Road which recently closed. ...and the rest and in between all forgotten. What are the bars and the discos that you remember and the memories you had? If im not wrong Vincent bar is at sixthfloor and niche at fifth floor i come to know i read somewhere an article about early days in the 80s hang out and before Vincent Lounge there is another small dance club Legend at Lucky Plaza. upshot 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
amicablyalan 92 Posted November 7, 2020 Report Share Posted November 7, 2020 Taboo! Where I met my first... 😭 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
glowingember 349 Posted November 8, 2020 Report Share Posted November 8, 2020 (edited) I was introduced to Rascal by my then-clique. Rascal was a relocation from Shadows. Rascal was a Sunday club for gays at Pan Pacific. I remember my friends telling me the reason for Sunday was because not many straights would want to club on Sundays as they still need to work on Monday. But gays then didn't have any other option so we still party and get real sleepy the next day at the classrooms. Also, the gay club has to keep moving as sometimes owners didn't want men to be dancing together. There were platforms (speakers?) and there was this young chap dancing on it. He kept repeating the same steps but he moved well and was good to look at. He didn't seem tired at all. The popular songs at that time was Erasure's Love to Hate you, Timmy Thomas' Dying Inside to hold you and Sandy Lam's Leon Lai's I was born in Beijing To be at Rascal was happiness and we can be who we are, instead of the need to hide and be silent of our identity. Sometimes we have to be careful as there were police raids at the club and we didn't want our identity to be noted by the authorities. The rumours were the police were looking for drug users. However, we felt they were letting us know that they were aware of this gay hangout. I only hooked up at Rascal once. Maybe I was too scared and too green or lol not attractive enough. I remember we used pig latin as we didn't want the straights to know what we were saying...and thinking back, some terms were not even Pig Latin. E.g. O-la (means un-glam). After the dancing, the only working friend in my group would bring us to Telok Ayer and have drinks and bread at the original Ya Kun from the man himself. After Rascal moved to Heartthrob and Studebakers(?), the comrade feeling was different and I stopped clubbing for good. Edited November 8, 2020 by glowingember Quote After all, tomorrow is another day. ~ S O'Hara Link to post Share on other sites
glowingember 349 Posted November 8, 2020 Report Share Posted November 8, 2020 I met a classmate at Rascal and he brought me to Raffles Place and Vincent's Lounge. Didn't really like Vincent's Lounge as it was sitting and drinking at the bar counter. My classmate likes Caucasians so that's why we were there. A decade later, I went to Mox. The owner or part-owner (Mox or Mok) is quite a suave-looking guy. Quite worldly and charming, but I got this hunch not to mess with him as he can be very very bitchy. The place above Mox was an acting studio. I saw a play there once about 2 teens from broken families and in love with each other. The leads were good-looking. I remember the doorman used to wear a PRC uniform and they play music loungy jazzy music. Been to Taboo a few times...but music was too loud and the dance-floor was too small. Saw the TCS actor there too (More than 10 years ago). I went to Why Not. Not for me as it's a generation younger than me. Visited Inner Circle, too bad I don't enjoy karaoke. Quote After all, tomorrow is another day. ~ S O'Hara Link to post Share on other sites
Steve5380 1,265 Posted November 16, 2020 Report Share Posted November 16, 2020 On 10/30/2020 at 7:18 PM, Guest Remember & Fondle said: Sigh! Reminisce again. Get that box of tissues. Much reminisce with tissues, is a sign of a life well lived so far. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
InBangkok 194 Posted November 17, 2020 Report Share Posted November 17, 2020 I used to stay at the Pan Pacific Hotel and was at Rascals on several Sundays. Great atmosphere. Also visited Zouk sometimes soon after it opened In the early 1990s. Not gay but there was definitely a gay section. First time I had ever had Sex on the Beach!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
doncoin 2,230 Posted November 17, 2020 Report Share Posted November 17, 2020 I only remember Studesbaker. It was the first gay club I went to. Had so much fun. I think also the space is pretty classy for its time. Oh well, we live and moved on. Quote Love. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Remember & Fondle Posted November 18, 2020 Report Share Posted November 18, 2020 On 11/17/2020 at 7:34 AM, Steve5380 said: Much reminisce with tissues, is a sign of a life well lived so far. A life revolved around gay bars, saunas, circuit parties, cruising in public places...fulfilling. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Loquacious Larry Laminator Posted November 20, 2020 Report Share Posted November 20, 2020 No mention of Happy or Play? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
groyn88 93 Posted November 25, 2020 Report Share Posted November 25, 2020 (edited) A comprehensive and detailed compilation of all the gay bars, discos and saunas that have closed down: https://the-singapore-lgbt-encyclopaedia.wikia.org/wiki/Singapore_gay_venues:_historical Edited November 25, 2020 by groyn88 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mate69 1,148 Posted November 25, 2020 Report Share Posted November 25, 2020 Soon Taboo next Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Walking With Pink Panthers Posted November 27, 2020 Report Share Posted November 27, 2020 There was also Centro, which held Sunday night parties at One Fullerton, and was the site of a not-fondly-remembered police raid on 5 August 2001. My older cousin was there that evening, and says he and his boyfriend were threatened with immediate arrest if they didn't stop holding hands, which would have publicly outed them a long time before they were ready. He always tells me how he much envies our younger generations, because we don't have to endure such blatant indignities, even though we still have a long way to go as a society in general. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mate69 1,148 Posted November 27, 2020 Report Share Posted November 27, 2020 Ah yes I remember Centro and the hot bois gosh...the memories....hahaha Quote Link to post Share on other sites
InBangkok 194 Posted November 27, 2020 Report Share Posted November 27, 2020 39 minutes ago, mate69 said: Ah yes I remember Centro and the hot bois gosh...the memories....hahaha Don’t we all have fond memories? I have written of my experiences as a regular visitor to gay haunts in Singapore in the 1990s and 2000s. I have many more of Bangkok as the gay scene expanded in the 1980s with the mushrooming of gogo bars and the first gay saunas. Similarly in Tokyo in the 1980s when there were already gay bars and a few saunas like Oban. But I sometimes wonder if these memories are tinted with rosy coloured spectacles. Was it perhaps just the newness if it all? Was it because we were all so much younger then? Were they really as exciting as we recall? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
wilfgene 190 Posted November 27, 2020 Report Share Posted November 27, 2020 2 hours ago, InBangkok said: Don’t we all have fond memories? I have written of my experiences as a regular visitor to gay haunts in Singapore in the 1990s and 2000s. I have many more of Bangkok as the gay scene expanded in the 1980s with the mushrooming of gogo bars and the first gay saunas. Similarly in Tokyo in the 1980s when there were already gay bars and a few saunas like Oban. But I sometimes wonder if these memories are tinted with rosy coloured spectacles. Was it perhaps just the newness if it all? Was it because we were all so much younger then? Were they really as exciting as we recall? Other aspects of life somehow merge onto our view of the past. By not deliberately forgetting, we live this life. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Loquacious Larry Laminator Posted November 27, 2020 Report Share Posted November 27, 2020 Our experiences are exactly as exciting as we remember them because they brought us joy at that time in our lives. People's perspectives change over time, as the freshness of various experiences fades away, but the initial thrill of whatever we did was real, and should be remembered happily in our hearts, rather than denied. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
wisely03 3 Posted November 28, 2020 Report Share Posted November 28, 2020 I enjoyed Play very much in its hey days as well as Water bar Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mate69 1,148 Posted November 28, 2020 Report Share Posted November 28, 2020 WhyNot Lol Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Me too Posted December 6, 2020 Report Share Posted December 6, 2020 Not sure if I am the only one but I always tot Mox guys are damn hot. I was 17 then. lol Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Guest Posted December 6, 2020 Report Share Posted December 6, 2020 On 11/7/2020 at 9:46 PM, amicablyalan said: Taboo! Where I met my first... 😭 I dun think Taboo fall under this category Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Steve5380 1,265 Posted December 6, 2020 Report Share Posted December 6, 2020 New Fire DiscoEdit After organising his initial Asian Men's Club Sunday parties at Studebaker's, Max Lim moved the parties to New Fire Disco, located on the 5th level of Orchard Plaza. They were unusually held on Fridays, from 9 pm to 3 am and called Torso Nite. It was popular in the early 1990s with many teenagers and young adults. Many of them were Malays. Dress code: rugged, singlet and leatherwear. Entrance fees: $13 for members (sign in 1 guest at member's price), $18 for non-members. All prices inclusive of one drink, exchangeable with coupon. Max Lim...! Colorful personality that I met first at Raw and then multiple times at Heater Room and Queen Resort. I made good acquaintance with him. I didn't know about his extensive past in the Singapore gay scene, Then, after 2013 I lost contact with him, Queen Resort disappeared, and only recently I read that he had passed away. So sad! I really liked the person. I wish to know what had happened to him. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mate69 1,148 Posted December 7, 2020 Report Share Posted December 7, 2020 11 hours ago, Guest Me too said: Not sure if I am the only one but I always tot Mox guys are damn hot. I was 17 then. lol omg i love MOX...still remember those retro-looking interior and the 80s-90s color designs patterns, and those v narrow mini balconies overlooking Tg Pagar and the skyline from 5 stories up....and the night sky and lights gosh i miss those days man Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Hmm Posted December 7, 2020 Report Share Posted December 7, 2020 Funny story i bumped into my jc teacher at mox. Then on, he kept thinking I was a bad student! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TopChinese 108 Posted January 5 Report Share Posted January 5 Studebakers was wild on a Sunday night during my NS days. We used to preload at Vincent's at Lucky Plaza, then walked over to Pacific Plaza around midnight. Our group always score free Long Islands - just smile at Max a lot. Us boys will then hang around in Orchard (or if lucky at someone's hotel) until book in by 0600 on Monday. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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